On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 13:39:18 -0500 Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 01:52:55 +0800 Emmanuel Noobadmin > <centos.admin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 4/6/16, Ranbir <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > Everywhere I go that uses useless flash, I get an error saying my > > > flash version is out of date. When I look for an update from > > > Adobe (i.e. back ported security fixes), there isn't one. I'm > > > already running the latest release for Linux. > > > > > > Did Adobe drop the security updates to flash sooner than they > > > promised? > > > > Did you update your flash-plugin? I'm not seeing such warning > > messages with my flash-plugin-11.2.202.577 from the adobe-linux > > repo. > > Actually, I see this warning all the time also, especially when > youtube video is embedded. The video does play on youtube.com however, > > $ rpm -qa flash-plugin > flash-plugin-11.2.202.577-release.x86_64 Adobe has said they will continue to provide backported security updates for flash-plugin for 5 years from it's release. https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html There's less than a year of that left now. Even with them providing security updates, they are usually not very quick to do so and the flash-plugin has a horrible track record. So, IMHO, you should only install flash in cases you absolutely need it, and keep it uninstalled/completely disabled the rest of the time. kevin
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